Mk 3:7-8 ... And the Jesus with the disciples of-him went-away before the sea, and a-great multitude from the Galilee followed, and from the Judea, and from Jerusalem, and from the Idumea, and the-other-side of-the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon, a-great multitude hearing all-that he-did came before him.

Verse 3:7-8 has these 46 Greek narrator words ... Kai ho Iēsous meta tōn mathētōn autou anechōrēsen pros tēn thalassan, kai polu plēthos apo tēs Galilaias ekolouthēsev, kai apo tēs Ioudaias. Kai apo Ierosolumōn kai apo tēs Idoumaias kai peran tou Iordanou kai peri Turon kai Sidōna plēthos polu akouontes osa epoiei ēlthon pros auton (See above for the word for word English translation).

Verses 7 and 8 lists 7 crowds to fill the raised Jesus diagram. The great multitude appears inside a radar inclusio, the words "polu plēthos" and "plēthos polu" (a great multitude). The 7 named crowds of 42 men plus the 4 disciples, a total of 46 men, fill the diagram! The bottom crowd from Galilee occupies 1/6th the area of the graph. All seven crowds from Galilee, Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, the East of the Jordan, Tyre, and Sidon (port cities on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea) occupy 75% of the area. Jesus and his four disciples are tangent to the rest. In the next parable Jesus will make his 12 apostles with the inclusio "kai epoiēsen dōdeka" (and he made twelve).

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